Movie Review: I AM NUMBER FOUR
This weekend marks the release of I AM NUMBER FOUR, the new Dreamworks suspense thriller from Director DJ Caruso and Producer Michael Bay. Based on the novel by Pittacus Lore, the story follows teenager John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) who has been forced to live his life on the run since he was a child, pursued by dark forces that want him dead. With help from his protector, Henri (Timothy Olypant), John has managed to survive out of the reach of those who wish him harm. There have been many questions surrounding this new release and viewers have been left wondering if this newest endeavor will pay off. ComicsOnline had a chance to participate in a Press Screening of the film and we are excited to say that I AM NUMBER FOUR is a pleasant surprise!
Anime DVD Review: Trigun, The Complete Series
You’ve got to ask yourself one question… Do I feel lucky?
Movie Review: Unknown
Considering that Unknown stars the new-and-improved-awesome-action-hero Liam Neeson, it was pretty anticipated by most fans (incuding myself), even if the trailers explained little about the movie and weren’t very widely shown. What the trailers did suggest, however, was that the audience would be treated to another action-packed, ass-kick-fest, starring Neeson as the rugged, sexy, and heroic protagonist. While Neeson was, indeed, sexy and rugged, I wouldn’t go so far as to use the words “heroic” or “action-packed” to describe much of anything in this movie, as Unknown (now also known as Taken 2: Hey, Somebody Stole My Memory) unfortunately falls into the category of same-old-story.
Beware of spoilers beyond this point!
Movie Review: Under The Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story
Anime DVD Review: Gantz, The Complete Series
It’s a girl!
What is Gantz? Gantz is a large black orb, sitting in an empty Tokyo apartment. Gantz has poor grammar. Gantz will give you weapons, and points if you are good. Pray you never meet Gantz. If you see Gantz, you’ve already died once. But, the next time you die, it’ll hurt more. And you won’t come back again.
Blu-ray Review: Death Race 2- Unrated
Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 3: The Broken and Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
You can always go back.
The Flicks
The Broken
After seeing her double driving her car one afternoon, Gina McVey’s (Lena Hedey, 300) seemingly perfect life takes a detour toward crazy. She pursues the doppelganger back to her apartment where she finds a picture of her and her dad. Panicked, she leaves in the same vehicle and gets in a massive car accident. Upon recovery she believes that someone is trying to replace her. As she investigates, she discovers there’s more to her reflection than she bargained for.
Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 2: Borderland and Crazy Eights
Chop, chop, chop and never stop…
The Flicks
Borderland
When three close friends decide to take a trip south of border to celebrate their high school graduation, they find more than a party waiting for them. They have the Mexican vacation of their lives until the boys decide to do some ‘shrooms and ultimately get separated.
Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 1: The Gravedancers and Wicked Little Things
Dead kids…are…creepy.
The Flicks
The Gravedancers
Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 4: The Graves and Zombies of Mass Destruction
Frida! She’s like a Cheetah!
The Flicks
The Graves
Megan and Abby Graves, two close but completely different sisters, are spending a final weekend together before Megan heads off to college. Instead of choosing some awesome place like a beach somewhere or Las Vegas, they choose the middle of nowhere in an Arizona desert. After a diner waitress convinces them to visit the town’s only attraction: an abandoned mining town called Skull City (no really, Skull City!), all hell breaks loose (literally) when they are chased by a determined killer.
DVD Review: The Adventures of Merlin the Complete Second Season
Cometh with me if you want to liveth.
Season two of the BBC’s hit series Merlin surprised me. I wasn’t sure after the end of season one that the series would be able to maintain its momentum, or develop its characters deeply enough to make the show believable for any length of time. One of the things you have to love about BBC productions however is that they’re so obviously not Hollywood, everything seems so much more real in a BBC series, and Merlin is no exception. Perhaps it sounds strange to place a show based entirely on fantasy into the category of “more real”, but bear with me while I make my case.
DVD Review: Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Series
History as we know it is a lie
Conspiracy and science fiction have been popular television themes since the invention of the cathode ray tube, and when the two mesh it’s often magic. In the middle of The Fugitive, V, X-Files, Lost, and Fringe are 1996’s Dark Skies.
Blu-ray Review: Battlestar Galactica Season Four
Since the final moments of the original mini-series pilot of the current re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, fans have been teased with the fact that one or more of the members of the colonial fleet might actually be Cylon Sleeper Agents. As the Third Season came to a close, Col. Tigh, Sam Anders, Tory Foster, and Galen Tyrol were revealed to be members of the “Final Five” Cylons. Now the group must decide if they will continue on as members of Humanity or side with their true nature. All will stand revealed in these final episodes of Battlestar Galactica Season 4 are now available on Blu-ray!
Lots of spoilers people. You have been warned. So say we all.
Episode Highlights
DVD Review: Black Panther Motion Comic
We had iPads before you had televisions. What now, bitchez?
In 2005 Reginald Hudlin (House Party, House Party 2, House Party 3) and John Romita Jr. (Uncanny X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Invincible Iron Man, Kick-Ass) brought back Marvel’s first black hero into volume 3 of The Black Panther ongoing series. This is a great comic whose initial 6-issue arc was strong and lent itself to an animated miniseries perfectly, but really that’s not unique among great comics, right? What’s notable here is the how and why this particular comic arc got made into a miniseries.